Erin Osmon
Erin Osmon is a music journalist, critic, and author of books on John Prine and Jason Molina. Her writing appears in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Rolling Stone, and others. She won the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thompson Award for album notes in 2023 and several LA Press Club Southern California Journalism awards. She lives in Nashville.
Erin Osmon
Erin Osmon is a music journalist, critic, and author of books on John Prine and Jason Molina. Her writing appears in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Rolling Stone, and others. She won the Deems Taylor/Virgil Thompson Award for album notes in 2023 and several LA Press Club Southern California Journalism awards. She lives in Nashville.
Books by Erin Osmon

Won't Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America
Erin Osmon
Hardback, 2026
One of America’s leading music journalists on Heartland Rock’s glory days and its role in the populist politics of the 1980s

Won't Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America
Erin Osmon
E Book
One of America’s leading music journalists on Heartland Rock’s glory days and its role in the populist politics of the 1980s



